URL rewrites and site migration

  • Unknown's avatar
    brokermtgs · Member ·

    brokermortgages (dot) com

    Hello and thank you for your time. I’m going to try to articulate this the best I can.

    I am migrating /recreating my site from joomla (url rewrite- On), to wp. Dev site is local. I am trying to keep everything consistent for smooth seo transition while dealing with a bunch of urls (rewrite urls) that happen to rank.

    Note: I have article lists on the current site that are categorized which over the years (via rewrite) have created lots of urls, each of which consists of a category and an article.

    .com/category/article

    Each article has been rewritten (so-to-speak) in conjunction with each category so the subject urls are a combination of a category and article

    Objective: to retain seo ranking on select URLs.

    I have close to 100 current urls that I would like to retain current seo rankings on. So I’m trying to figure out the best way to bring /transition them to the new and improved site. Is the solution to simply redirect all of the article pages to the root category page?

    Trying to determine proper method of delivery.., Redirect? Permalinks? Combination of the 2?

    I’m considering doing some of the urls via redirect and some of them via permalink.., depending on the individual url.

    I’m thinking about creating new WP pages for some of the different urls by utilizing permalinks. and redirecting the rest.

    Suggestions? Please advise. Thank you in advance..

    Side Note: At some point in the future, post migration, I would like to incorporate some of these urls into future taxonomies. To create and develope a New Taxonomy for (out of) an existing category by utilizing the corresponding root category URLs. Thanks again.

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  • Unknown's avatar
    brokermtgs · Member ·

    I’m thinking about creating new WP pages for some of the different urls by utilizing *Custom Links . and redirecting the rest.

  • staff-totoro · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Apologies, but we can’t help with your issue directly because we don’t host your site on our WordPress.com managed hosting.

    To explain, we are a fully managed hosting provider and use a custom server environment that is optimized for WordPress, provides built-in security and performance improvements, as well as in-house support for your site questions. You can learn more about the performance and security benefits of our managed hosting here: https://wordpress.com/hosting/

    Because of the way we’ve optimized our service, we also use a customized version of WordPress that is different (under the hood) from what you use at your localhost installation. As a result, we do not have access to your site and are not familiar with the source of your issue.

    The good news is that help is available here at the open-source WordPress forums: https://wordpress.org/support/forum/localhost-installs/

    The folks in that forum are more familiar with localhost installations and are in the best position to help.

    Thanks!

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